Dave Bennett, EVP, Product & Strategy at Orion Health shares his thoughts on moving interoperability forward at HIMSS17. Integration must be operationalized and real-time data should be curated to move health care towards becoming a data-driven industry.

Siemens Healthineers establishes digital platform for healthcare providers as well as for providers of solutions and services

H. Stephen Lieber, president and CEO of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), will be retiring at the end of 2017. 

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security released its Draft National Cyber Incident Response Plan (NCIRP) in September. Now, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has written a letter focusing on three main topics to improve the plan.

Healthcare groups including HIMSS, AMIA and CHIME have written a letter to members of Congress asking for a national patient identifier to increase patient safety and the electronic exchange of data.

Date breaches have been dominating the news in recent months. Hackers have stolen patient records then sold them on the black market.

Electronic health record (EHR) vendors and the clinicians they serve need more than a few months to adapt to the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act, according to numerous comments submitted to CMS by health IT groups.

Cerner has named John Glaser as leader of its population health organization, effective April 1, with continued focus on governmental policy development.